Pickens (surname)
Appearance
Pickens is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Andrew Pickens (congressman) (1739–1817), American Revolutionary War General and US Congressman, South Carolina
- Andrew Pickens (governor) (1779–1838), War of 1812 and Governor of South Carolina
- Carl Pickens (born 1970), former NFL player
- Francis Wilkinson Pickens (1805–1869), governor of South Carolina
- James Pickens, Jr. (born 1954), American actor
- Slim Pickens (1919–1983), American actor and cowboy
- T. Boone Pickens, Jr. (born 1928) American businessman and philanthropist
- J.P. Pickens (1937–1973), Musician, poet and artist
- William Pickens (1881–1954) African-American orator, educator, journalist, and essayist
- Willie Pickens (1931-2017), American musician